Find A Grave - Worcester County

Boutell, Henry Sherman b. March 14, 1856 d. March 11, 1926
US Congressman, US Diplomat. Elected to represent Illinois's 6th and 9th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1897 to 1911. Also served as a Member of the Illinois State House of Representatives in 1884, and United States Minister to Switzerland from 1911 to 1913. (Bio by: K)
Pine Grove Cemetery, Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Bransfield, William Edward 'Kitty' b. January 7, 1875 d. May 1, 1947
Major League Baseball Player. He played Major league baseball for 12 seasons (1898, 1901 to 1911) as a first baseman for the Boston Beaneaters, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, and the Chicago Cubs.
Saint Johns Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Bresnahan, Thomas F. b. July 4, 1892 d. 1971
United States Army Brigadier General. A gradate of Middlebury College, Vermont, he enlisted in the US Army and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant on August 15, 1917. During WW I, he served as a Intelligence Officer, later Commanding Officer, Company L, 38th Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces, France From December 1917 to December 1919 and was wounded in action at the Meuse Argonne Battle. After the war he returned to the US as Captain and promoted Major, 24th Infantry at Camp Furlong...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Saint Bernards Cemetery, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Bruce, Phineas b. 1762 d. 1809
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1803 to 1805.
Prospect Hill Cemetery, Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Bullock, Alexander Hamilton b. March 6, 1816 d. January 17, 1882
Massachusetts Governor. A Harvard graduate and Worcester attorney, Bullock was a newspaper editor in the 1840s before serving in the Massachusetts State Senate. He also served a Mayor of Worcester, and Speaker of the State House of Represenatives during the Civil War. He was elected to three one-year terms as governor, serving from 1866 to 1869. During his tenure, Bullock made great strides in eliminating the commonwealth's war debts and obligations. (Bio by: Thomas J Fraser)
Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Burkett, Jesse Cail b. February 12, 1870 d. May 27, 1953
Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Player. He played in over 2,000 major league games, compiling a lifetime batting average of .342, while topping the .400 batting mark three times. He was nicknamed "Crab" by his teammates for his overly serious demeanor, steady complaining, inability to take teasing, and general lack of friendliness. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, he began playing baseball as a left throwing pitcher, and was later played as an Outfielder, but it was as a batter that he...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: hardening of the arteries
Saint Johns Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Rosary Section, Range 12, Lot 135
GPS coordinates: 42.2411613, -71.8169479 (hddd.dddd)
Burnett, Edward b. March 16, 1849 d. November 5, 1925
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 9th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1887 to 1889. (Bio by: K)
Burnett Memorial Cemetery, Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Callahan, Nixey b. March 18, 1874 d. October 4, 1934
Major League Baseball Player. A pitcher and outfielder for four teams in thirteen seasons in the majors, he played with the Philadelphia Phillies (1894), Chicago Colts (1897), Chicago Orphans (1898 to 1900), and Chicago White Sox (1901 to 1905 and 1911 to 1913). Born James Joseph Callahan, in 3,295 plate appearances he batted .273 with 394 runs batted in. He had his best year at the plate in 1901 when he batted .331. He pitched in eight of his thirteen seasons, a starting pitcher in 177 games...[Read More] (Bio by: Mel Bashore)
Saint Bernards Cemetery, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Casey, David P. b. 1842 d. January 4, 1893
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a prisoner of war. He served as a Corporal in the Union Army in Company C, 25th Massachusetts Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on June 3, 1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia. His citation reads "Two color bearers having been shot dead one after the other, the last one far in advance of his regiment and close to the enemy's lines, this soldier rushed forward, and, under a galling fire, after removing the dead body of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Saint Patricks Cemetery, Northbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Calvary Section
Chamberlain, Daniel Henry b. June 23, 1835 d. April 13, 1907
Governor of South Carolina from 1874 to 1877. (Bio by: S. Anderstrom)
Pine Grove Cemetery, West Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Chang, Min-Chueh b. 1908 d. June 5, 1991
Scientist. Chang was known as the father of the birth control pill and invitro fertilaization. He was considered a pioneer in his field of work.
Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Coolidge, Frederick Spaulding b. December 7, 1841 d. June 8, 1906
US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent Massachusetts' 11th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1891 to 1893.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Coolidge, Marcus Allen b. October 6, 1865 d. January 23, 1947
US Senator. Served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1931 to 1937. Also served as Mayor of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1916, and Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts in 1936. (Bio by: K)
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Copp, Charles D. b. April 12, 1840 d. November 2, 1912
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. He was a Second Lieutenant with Company C, 9th New Hampshire Infantry and was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism at Fredericksburg, Virginia. His official CMOH citation reads as follows: Seized the regimental colors, the color bearer having been shot down, and, waving them, rallied the regiment under a heavy fire. Rank and Organization: Second Lieutenant, Company C, 9th New Hampshire Infantry. Place and Date: At Fredericksburg, Va., 13...[Read More]
Middle Cemetery, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Front section, row 3
Cormier, Robert Edmund b. January 17, 1925 d. November 2, 2000
Author, Journalist. He wrote and won awards for his Young Adult Literature. His works include "Now and at the Hour", "A Little Raw on Monday Mornings", "Take Me Where the Good Times Are" and "The Chocolate War".
Saint Cecilias Cemetery, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Crocker, Alvah b. 1801 d. 1874
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts's 9th and 10th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1872 until his death in 1874. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State Legislature. (Bio by: K)
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Davis, Hasbrouck [cenotaph] b. April 23, 1827 d. October 19, 1870
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A Christian minister and lawyer prior to the war, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel of the 12th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry in February 1862. He participated in the September 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry, where he helped the unit escape without losing a single man, despite being surrounded. On February 5, 1864, he was promoted to Colonel. Throughout the rest of the war, he held various commands, including the 2nd and 3rd Brigade Cavalry...[Read More] (Bio by: Eric B Stone)
Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Section 30, Lot 523 1/2
Davis, John b. January 13, 1787 d. April 19, 1854
US Congressman, US Senator, Massachusetts Governor. He was elected to represent Massachusetts' 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1825 to 1834. He served as Governor of Massachusetts from 1834 to 1835, and 1841 to 1843, and was elected as a Senator from Massachusetts on the United States Senate, serving from 1835 to 1841, and 1845 to 1853. (Bio by: K)
Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Day, Hannibal b. February 15, 1804 d. March 26, 1891
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1823 (with future Union Generals Lorenzo Thomas and George S. Greene), he was posted to the 2nd United States Infantry, a unit that he would be associated with nearly his entire career. His military service in the long years before the Civil War exhibited the typical stations of a career soldier, serving garrison posted on the Great lakes, on the East Coast and in the Western Frontier. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Evergreen Cemetery, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Section 1, Lot 219
De Witt, Alexander b. April 2, 1798 d. January 13, 1879
US Congressman. He represented Massachusetts' 9th District in the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses, serving from 1853 to 1857. As a Free Soil politician, he was one of the six signers of Salmon P. Chase's manifesto "Appeal of the Independent Democrats" (1854), which argued strongly against passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Chase called it "an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region immigrants from the Old World and free laborers from our own States, and convert it...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
South Cemetery, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA

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